{{unreferenced, date=May 2012 Following is a list of notable people from

Gorgan Gorgan ( fa, گرگان ; also romanized as ''Gorgān'', ''Gurgān'', and ''Gurgan''), formerly Esterabad ( ; also romanized as ''Astarābād'', ''Asterabad'', and ''Esterābād''), is the capital city of Golestan Province, Iran. It lies appro ...

, the capital of Golestan Province in northern

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

Notables from Gorgan

Contemporary prominent figures

Mohammad Reza Lotfi Mohammad-Reza Lotfi ( fa, محمدرضا لطفی; 1 January 1947 – 2 May 2014) was an Iranian classical musician renowned for his mastery of the tar and setar. He collaborated with singers such as Mohammad-Rezā Shajarian, Hengameh Akhavan, ...

, Musician. *

Maryam Zandi Maryam Zandi (born 1946 in Gorgan, Iran) is an Iranian documentary photographer and author. She is best known for her photographs during the Iranian Revolution. Biography She spent her school years in Gorgan and then graduated from University ...

, Photographer.

Historical figures

* Abd-al-Qaher Jorjani, Grammarian and literary theorist. *

Mir Damad Mir Damad ( fa, ميرداماد) (c. 1561 – 1631/1632), known also as Mir Mohammad Baqer Esterabadi, or Asterabadi, was a Twelver Shia Iranian philosopher in the Neoplatonizing Islamic Peripatetic traditions of Avicenna. He also was a Suhra ...

* Gorgani, Zayn al-Din Isma‘il ibn, royal physician * Gorgani, Abu Saeed, astronomer and mathematician * Gorgani, Rustam, physician * Masihi Gorgani, Avicenna's master * Ali ibn Mohammed al-Jurjani, encyclopedic writer and theologian *

Fazlallah Astarabadi Fażlu l-Lāh Astar-Ābādī ( fa, فضل‌الله استرآبادی, 1339/40 in Astarābād – 1394 in Nakhchivan), also known as Fażlullāh Tabrīzī AstarābādīIrène Mélikoff. ''Hadji Bektach: un mythe et ses avatars : genèse et évo ...

, 14th century Islamic mystic and founder of the Hurufi movement * Bibi Khatoon Astarabadi, a notable writer, satirist, and one of the pioneering figures of the women's movement of Iran

Mayors after the Islamic Revolution, February 1979 onwards

* Ebrahim Karimi (son of Abbass), holder of B.A. in Theology & Islamic Laws * Ebrahim Karimi (son of Abbass), appointed (selected by the Gorgan City Islamic Council), in June 2007, for the 2nd time

Famous guests

Califs

*Abbasid Calif

Harun Al-Rashid Abu Ja'far Harun ibn Muhammad al-Mahdi ( ar , أبو جعفر هارون ابن محمد المهدي) or Harun ibn al-Mahdi (; or 766 – 24 March 809), famously known as Harun al-Rashid ( ar, هَارُون الرَشِيد, translit=Hārūn ...

* Imam Reza